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ISBN 10 : 0771039832 ISBN 13 : 9780771039836

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Présentation de l'éditeur

A Story of English by Robert McCrum meets Bill Bryson in this informative and uproarious account of how the English language came to be, as told through its rudest, roughest elements, from bad words to insults to curses. 

Bill Bryson once wrote that what immediately sets English apart from other languages is the richness of its vocabulary. In The Rude Story of English, Tom Howell, an ex-lexicographer, takes on one of his favourite stories: how the English language came to be -- and tells it through its rudest, most offensive, simplest parts. From 440 AD, when Hengest, a Germanic warrior, first stepped onto English shores and cursed as his boots filled with seawater, to the present day, curses, insults, and rude words have played as important a role in the story of English as polite ones. Hugely entertaining and informative, The Rude Story of English is part fact, part fiction and reveals that, no matter how uncomfortable or off-putting, there's much to be learned from some of a language's most colourful parts.

Biographie de l'auteur

TOM HOWELL is an ex-lexicographer who worked on the Canadian Oxford Dictionary for several years and was the co-creator of the first Canadian Oxford Thesaurus (where his speciality was exclamations -- entries for "ha ha," "yuck," and so on). Beginning in 2006, he was the associate producer for, and made appearances as the Word Nerd on, the CBC Radio One's And Sometimes Y. Most recently, he has worked as a producer on The Next Chapter and currently produces Wachtel on the Arts.

Détails de l'édition

• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0771039832
• ISBN 13: 9780771039836
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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